Examining the opportunities and threats caused by information technology in promoting reading culture from the perspective of student teachers

In recent years, book reading has taken steps backwards against the expansion of the functions of technologies, therefore, efforts should be made to use the opportunities of virtual space to promote the culture of reading books in this situation. Therefore, the main purpose of the research is to examine the opportunities and threats of technologies in promoting the reading culture based on the perspective of the student teachers of Farhangian University of Isfahan. The research method was descriptive-survey, the statistical population included students and teachers of Farhangian University of Isfahan. Using stratified random sampling, 342 of them were selected as a sample. The measurement tool is a researcher-made questionnaire, including 46 questions, based on a 5-point Likert scale, which measures the opportunities and threats in three cognitive, emotional and behavioral areas of reading. The analysis of data, in two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics, showed that the most important cognitive opportunities of technologies: diversification into educational and leisure-oriented activities, in the emotional field: the desire for proper content creation and separation of subjects, and in Behavioral area: diversifying students' free time. The most important threats, in the cognitive field: the weakening of understanding and memorization, in the emotional field: reducing thinking and meditation on issues and following unreliable sources in the media, and in the behavioral field: creating a ground for separation from teachings. It is the original of the books.